"There is a story telling how he fell into a passion on account of
(BEING GIVEN?) eighteen letters (OF THE ALPHABET TO HIS NAME?), when
according to his own reckoning he was entitled to twenty-four.[12]
There are tales of him which do indeed seem most marvellous of the
things that he did; as, for instance, how he made ready an army because
one day in the morning, while standing dressing at a window which was
closed, a ray of the sun came into his eyes, and he cried out that he
would not rest until he had killed or vanquished whomsoever had dared
to enter his apartments while he was dressing. All his nobles could
not dissuade him from his purpose, even though they told him it was
the sun that had done it, a thing without which they could not live,
that it was a celestial thing and was located in the sky, and that he
could never do any harm to it. With all this he made his forces ready,
saying that he must go in search of his enemy, and as he was going
along with large forces raised in the country through which he began
his march so much dust arose that it obscured the sun. When he lost
sight of it he made fresh inquiries as to what the thing was, and
the captains told him that there was now no reason for him to wait,
and that he might return home since he had put to flight him whom he
had come to seek. Content with this, the king returned by the road
that he had taken in his search for the sun, saying that since his
enemy had fled he was satisfied.

"Other extravagances are told of him which make him out a great lord,
as, for instance, that being in the Charamaodel country he was told
that certain leagues distant in the sea there was a very great island,
and its land was gold, and the stones of its houses and those which
were produced in the ground were rubies and diamonds: in which
island there was a pagoda, whither came the angels from heaven to
play music and dance. Being covetous of being the lord of this land,